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The sixth annual Architecture + Design Film Festival -- still the only film fest in Canada devoted to the built environment -- runs this week, highlighting over 25 shorts and features from 10 countries.
Most of the films screen at Cinematheque, but there are also free showings at the Millennium Library, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and architects' offices around the city. (For a full schedule, see adff.ca)
Not just for architecture wonks, the festival offers plenty for general audiences looking to explore the impact of design on our cities, our homes and our everyday lives. Here are a few films to check out:
Harry Seidler: Modernist (Cinematheque, May 3, 7 p.m.): This new documentary about the man who "turned Australian architecture on its head" actually has a Winnipeg connection. Harry Seidler was an Austrian-born Jew who escaped rising Nazism with his family only to be interned as an "enemy alien" in Quebec. Released on parole, he attended the School of Architecture at the...